What’s in Your Closet?
Steven J. Moss These photographs surfaced from my sister’s, Elise’s, closet. Though the linage is uncertain, in 1918 my Jewish great-great grandparents, Israel Moskovitz and Elka Aspis, lived in Kelse, Poland with their…
Community Calendar: June 2024
PV Staff Now through 6/9 SundayFilm: San Francisco Documentary Film FestivalThis year’s festival offers 90 new films from the Bay Area and around the world with options to stream or enjoy in-person.…
Bob Hayes at the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House
Peter Linenthal, Potrero Hill Archives Project Bob Hayes served as the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House’s photography teacher, operating from a cramped darkroom with donated chemicals and paper from the early-1970s until his death in 2006. Tall…
Neighborhood Merchants Generally Doing Fine
Danny Pham While some San Francisco commercial corridors experienced dramatic reductions in demand between 2019 and 2023 – sales tax revenue dropped by 43 percent South of Market – sales tax revenues…
High Care Costs, Pandemic Period Policies, Increases Shelter Demand for Dogs
Jessica Zimmer San Francisco Animal Care and Control (SFACC) is experiencing a deluge of dogs due in part to the high cost of veterinary care and the pause in neuter and spay…
Four Candidates, Plus Roughly 40 More, Vie to Replace Incumbent Mayor
Mayors running for reelection typically scare off significant challengers, given the power of incumbency. Not so this year. Four notables – Mark E. Farrell, Daniel Lurie, Aaron Peskin and Ahsha…
Publisher’s View: Monopoly
Many of us have played Monopoly, the ruthless board game with cute tokens. The goal is to drive all other players out of business by charging usurious rents. If a…
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Lights If you’ve ever wondered why City Hall is lit in a specific set of colors on a given night, wonder no more! According to the Office of the City…
Beneath the Fluorescents: Safeway, Theft, and the Socio-Economic Divide
Camile Messerley Ongoing activities at Safeway’s Potrero Center location highlight a broad set of social issues facing the store, San Francisco, and other urban areas. Shoppers rely on the market for routine…
InsectPalooza Can be ‘Life-Changing,’ Org Asserts
Rebekah Moan Handling a giant African millipede, which can grow up to 13 inches long and 2.5 inches around, will change your life forever, according to SaveNature.Org chief executive officer and co-founder…
Native Plants Can be Found Throughout Potrero Hill
Lorraine Sawicki Spring can bring fresh feelings of joyful growth. Although allergies can be triggered, the season bursts with flowers and fruits of many shapes and sizes. Some plants have been in…
The Mysterious Beauty of Tótem
Marisa Helms Tótem (2023), the latest film by Mexican writer-director Lila Avilés (The Chambermaid), is visually stunning and contemplative, inviting viewers into the quiet and disquieting world of a young child as…
Place to Play Games in Dogpatch
Mike Lin Located at 1095 Tennessee Street, Dogpatch Games is a retail store and community space that hosts events centered around tabletop games, amusements that’re typically played on a table or other…
Community Calendar
5/4 Saturday“Music”: US Air Guitar Regional ChampionshipsPart rock show. Part comedy act. Part spectacle. 9 p.m. $18; $25 competitor. Bottom of the Hill, 1233 17th Street. For more information: https://bit.ly/44dnLug…
High-Tech Solution to Reducing Noise Pollution
Mark Steensland The term “noise pollution” first appeared in a 1966 New England Journal of Medicine article about the negative health effects of unwanted sound. Six years later the federal Noise Control…
The History Issue
The Potrero View’s special History Issue in April features a cover showcasing Alison Pebworth’s map of the Phantom Coast and images of our neighborhood’s rich manufacturing and shipbuilding history. We…
Publisher’s View: History
Each of us, if we live long enough, is a part of history. Between the time I was born in 1960 and now, terrorist planes crashed into and toppled Manhattan’s…
Starring Potrero Hill
Jim Van Buskirk Potrero Hill has starred in dozens of feature films, television shows, and commercials over the last fifty plus years, capturing our photogenic corner of the City, as well as inadvertently…
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Theater This year’s participants in Potrero Hill-based PlayGround’s Innovator Incubator include two companies new to the Incubator – The American Jewish Theatre and House Theater, both Los Angeles-based – and…
Potrero Hill Resident Interested in Sounds
Andrew Roth fell in love with sound more than four decades ago, when he was eight years old. His doctor dad would drive him from their North-of-Market neighborhood to Tower…
Historic Buildings and Their Stories
THE RICHARD’S HOUSE, 301 PENNSYLVANIA AND BETHLEHEM SHIPBUILDING CORPORATION. HOSPITAL, 331 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE The Italianate Victorian at 301 Pennsylvania, at 18th Street, is one of Potrero Hill’s oldest mansions, built…
Community Calendar: April
Now through 4/7 Sunday Art: The 63rd Annual Potrero Hill Art ExhibitionOpen to anyone who lives, learns, works, and/or worships in Potrero Hill or Dogpatch. The first 50 artists to…
Potrero High Schools Have Low Graduation Rates
Jenna Duncan Although San Francisco high schools slightly exceeded the state average for students graduating within five years of starting, San Francisco International and Downtown high schools, both in Potrero Hill, had…
Parking Reduced to Improve Pedestrian Safety
As a result of Assembly Bill (AB) 413, as of January 1, 2024 drivers are no longer allowed to park within 20 feet of a crosswalk, marked or unmarked, on…
Green Benefit District Holds Election
The Dogpatch and Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District (GBD) has its annual board elections this month, in advance of a year in which the organization will work to convince…
